Michael Shellenberger highlighting a New York Fed report which trashes the idea that climate change is a threat to the US financial system.
Category: Climate Economics
Tony Blair Institute: New 1.2GW Offshore Wind Farm Every 10 Weeks to Hit Net Zero
The Tony Blair Institute has calculated that a wind farm equal to the largest offshore wind farm ever built must be completed every 10 weeks, to hit Net Zero by…
President Biden Orders a FTC Investigation into Gasoline Prices
After shutting down pipelines right and left, frightening investors with climate extremism, threatening new taxes, and banning new leases on federal land, the Biden administration suspects foul play may be…
Aussie ABC: “A renewable energy revolution is powering Australia’s $720bn mining and resources industry”
Except when it isn’t: “fossil fuels — particularly gas — would still be needed at many remote resources projects for some time yet.”
Guardian Climate Survey: “Few Willing to Change…”
According to The Guardian, most people surveyed already believe they are doing more than their fair share to save the planet from climate change.
Greta Thunberg: The West Owes Former Colonies a Climate Debt
According to Greta rich countries have to pay reparations for the ancestral crime of bringing industry, roads, hospitals, schools and comfort in old age to the world.
SEC Obsesses Over “Climate” Risk Disclosures
There will shortly be thousands upon thousands of additional pages of corporate disclosures of the “risks” of attempts by governments to suppress the use of fossil fuels. But governments have…
BBC Climate Expert Explains How Australia Could Live Without Coal Exports
Coal is both Australia’s second largest export and something Australia could live without, according to the BBC.
Net Zero Fail: CBA Shareholders Overwhelmingly Support Fossil Fuel Loans
As global fossil fuel demand surges, a shareholder resolution by Commonwealth Bank of Australia to stop fossil fuel lending was overwhelmingly rejected by 86% of shareholders.
Hydrogen boiler revolution ‘pretty much impossible’, says minister
Using hydrogen to replace natural gas as a green alternative in boilers is “pretty much impossible”, a minister has admitted, despite the Government planning major trials over the coming decade.
Claim: Green Loans and Solar Panels Could Save Households Money
Australia’s “climate genius” Seth Griffith explains how households could all be powered by government financed solar with an EV in the garage by 2024.
Treasury Secretary on European Wind Drought: “Energy Storage … Can Be Deployed”
If Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has calculated how much must be spent on energy storage to stabilise a renewable grid, she does not seem keen to share.
More News On The Progress Toward Eliminating Fossil Fuels
The bureaucrats of the world, particularly in the UN and developed countries, have the idea that they are going to eliminate all use of fossil fuels by somewhere around 2040-50.…
Lomborg on Intergenerational inequities in exposure to climate extremes
So, what’s the point, except to scare?
Investors Lose £24 Million In Wind Scam
Unfortunately investors like this guy have been fooled by the lies put about by the wind industry and renewable lobby, who have deceived the public into thinking that wind power…
Green Energy Companies Fold
The whole business model of these sort of companies has been a scam from the start, pretending to supply renewable electricity to gullible consumers. But when the wind does not…
Aussie Federal Treasurer Pushes for a Climate Unicorn Powered Economy
My question – if Australia’s green economy is such an amazing investment opportunity, why is $20 billion of taxpayer’s money needed to make it happen?
Power Markets In Crisis
Alarm bells have been ringing in European and UK power markets this month, as electricity prices surge to record levels. Here day-ahead prices are triple those of a year ago,…
NYT: “Do We Need to Shrink the Economy to Stop Climate Change?”
According to Economic Degrowth proponents, we need to give up guns, S.U.V.s, eating beef, private transportation, advertising and consumer goods, to achieve a life which is more in harmony with…
Climate Proposal: Poor Countries to Pay Down National Debt by Spending Money on Themselves
Imagine if you could pay down your own credit card or bank debt by mowing your own lawn. This is what developing countries have just demanded from COP26. To make…
Claim: Australia can Live the Renewable Energy Dream – All We Need is a Trillion Dollars of Government Loans
Australia’s latest climate guru Saul Griffith thinks if we put solar panels on most of the roofs and EVs in all the driveways, we can meet our climate targets.
Woke companies must wake up on ESG
Nearly all hope to “greenwash” their reputations, by claiming they’ll “make the world a better place,” by reducing fossil fuel emissions, and thus planetary temperatures and extreme weather events.
AFR: The $30 Trillion Required to Decarbonise the Planet is a Great Investment Opportunity
According to the Australian Financial Review, $30 trillion to provide electricity to people who already have electricity is a greater investment opportunity than the internet.
$5 trillion in 2021 global debt/equity raised (so far), “divest fossil fuels” in full swing, the world running short of natural gas/coal, and winter is coming
And yet, even with that freedom, I am at a loss to describe the mayhem going on in the energy world. It’s not that I’m afraid of stepping on toes,…